Privacy Policy Statement
Hong Kong Economic Times Limited (“Economic Times”) is committed to protecting and maintaining the security of readers and customers’ personal data, and is committed to fully implementing and complying with the requirements of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance. We respect your right to privacy. This statement hereby details the rules for the collection, use and disclosure of personal information by the Economic Times (including our website Hong Kong NEWS and real estate website), so that you can make appropriate choices when providing personal information.
Collection and use of personal data
When you register to subscribe to the Economic Daily and Hong Kong NEWS, apply to become a Hong Kong NEWS member, or participate in our activities, you must provide specified personal information. Otherwise, we may not be able to process your application and provide services, and this may cause delays; others Personal information is mainly used for customer statistics, improvement of products, services and promotion.
Without your consent, this newspaper will not use your personal information or disclose your personal information to any other third party for the purpose of direct sales.
- When you subscribe, register as a member or participate in an event, Economic Daily will collect the following information:
- Registration information, including name, email address, phone number, address;
- Transaction records (subscription and billing activities), including bank name, account name and number, credit card number, cardholder name and expiration date;
- Customer demographic information, including age, gender, education level, personal monthly income, status of family members (children), etc.
2. When you browse or use the Economic Daily website and services, the website will keep records to analyze the number of visitors and general usage of the website. Some of this information will be collected through “Cookies”. Cookies are files containing a small amount of information that are automatically stored in the Internet browser installed on the visitor’s computer and can be retrieved by this website and services at a later time. Cookies allow this website to browse or service to know which web pages are more popular, so as to create a more ideal online experience for users. Cookies collect anonymous collective statistical information and do not include personal contact information such as name, address, phone number, and email address. The information collected is only used by this website and services to analyze your likes and dislikes of Hong Kong NEWS and provide personalized information. Necessary content and advertising will not be provided to third parties. Currently, common browser versions have the Cookies function enabled by default. If you want to disable cookies or be notified of the use of cookies, you can change your browser settings, but when subscribing to Hong Kong NEWS, you must accept cookies, otherwise the subscription function will not be available.
3. When you browse or use the mobile device application on the Economic Times website and services, the application may regularly connect to the server to view browsing usage and each user transmission activity, and record it in the server records of the software developer. These records are only used for internal analysis and to provide content and advertisements that meet personal needs, and will not be provided to third parties.
4. When you use the Economic Times mobile application, the application transmits your mobile device’s unique identification number (or “UID”) to us. A unique device identifier is a unique and unique string of numbers or characters on your mobile device. We will use this information when you open an application on your mobile device. In addition, we will collect location data through the GPS positioning function. You can turn off the location data collection function at any time through the settings menu of your mobile device.
5. Advertisers of advertisements placed on the Economic Times website and services may collect information through “Cookies”. You understand and agree that the advertiser will follow its own privacy protection policy, which is not covered by this policy. and other information collected by advertisers.